A paper in a research series by the Lancet, says that we have ensuing obesity epidemic. Currently 25% of the nation is classed as obese, but this is set to rise to 40% by 2030, according to researchers.

The global obesity pandemic: shaped by global drivers and local environments

They are claiming this will put great pressure on health services and governments need to take action to discourage people from eating fatty foods, like putting taxes on these types of food, therefore making them more expensive for the consumer.

One of the high rise of heart diseases, obesity and hypercholesterolemia is the result most of the time due the junk food that people consume. THere should be strict measure on this type of food similar to taxes subjected to cigaretes taxation.

junk food does not make people fat. it is the individual who eats far more than he/she needs that produces obesity. make fat people pay higher taxes. that would put a stop to this "obesity" crisis. or make them wear a sign saying " i am a greedy pig"

I hope some people here didn't mean wjhat they wrote, Put a tax on fat people? Make them wear signs? Are you serious? Is the victim to be blamed? It is wrong, wrong, wrong. And about junk food. This is all wrong. Junk food contains too much simple sugars, too much fat, too much salt and other ingedients that not only make one mistaken in its real caloric value, but also encourage metabolic processes such as abrupt drops in blood sugar encouraging one to eat more.So, to put all blame on the obese person is ridiculous and cruel.

And we do know that the industry encourages intake of junk food in order to make us buy more and more of it.

So called hamburger tax have just introduced in Hungary. F.e. tax have to be payed if a candy contains more than 25% sugar, 300 HUF ( roughly 1 pound)have to pax after every litre of energy drink, and have to pay after food which contains high salt concentration (f.e. soup powders).